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Esma Redzepova Teodosievska
Roma and Macedonian folk singer and humanitarian

internationally acclaimed as the Queen of Romany Songs and
second time Nobel Peace Prize nominee

She is the same girl surprising her father, a shoeblack in Skopje, buying him a kiosk in the centre of Macedonian capital with first earnings when she was thirteen. She is sixty and she still doesn't resist without sharing and giving. Her voice, hard work with Stevo Teodosievski, her caretaker, master and husband, and high-educated musicians of Ensemble Teodosievski enable her to became Macedonian and world-renowned humanitarian. In her homeland she is declared as a second Mother Teresa.

As a second time Nobel peace Prize nominee she is supported by president of Macedonia, Gypsy World Organisation, Macedonian and World Lions Organisation, more than forty non-governmental humanitarian institutions in the field of culture and art, feminine organisations, international organizations, national organizations and institutions worldwide, ..

Feature or/and interview available. tekst by Sasa Petejan / photo bb